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paul ryan serves in the house of representatives. he is very pro-life. i doubt he will bring that up in the speech behind me. they will talk about we did build it. they will hammer president obama on the recent comments on small business owners. we're in a small steel company here in pennsylvania west of pittsburgh. 50 or 60 people employed here. they say there are about 2,000 people here to listen to ryan talk about jobs. we'll have to see. a hefty promise. a lot of jobs. paul ryan will specify how many of the 12 million jobs will be brought to the commonwealth. >> thank you. >>> coming up, how todd akin's comments could impact who controls the senate for the missouri senate seat. >>> and the plane hit by insurgents in combat. >>> and the tributesi pouring i after the death of phyllis diller. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. [ bottle #2 ] i heard it came from space... nooo! ...from a very clean al
paul ryan serves in the house of representatives. he is very pro-life. i doubt he will bring that up in the speech behind me. they will talk about we did build it. they will hammer president obama on the recent comments on small business owners. we're in a small steel company here in pennsylvania west of pittsburgh. 50 or 60 people employed here. they say there are about 2,000 people here to listen to ryan talk about jobs. we'll have to see. a hefty promise. a lot of jobs. paul ryan will...
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mitt romney and paul ryan cannot talk about todd aiken. if they support him they're in trouble with the mainstream, if they vilify him they're in trouble with the base. he has friends in high places making sure that he doesn't go quietly into the night. today, mike huckabee sent out this letter to his supporters. if todd akin loses the senate seat. ly not blame him. he made his mistake but admitted it and apologized. i'm waiting for the apology from the genius on those in or party that was wise to not only shoot him, but run over him and feed him to the wolves. mike huckabee is a key figure in the christian movement. he was granted a speaking roll in the convention. he is sharing with microphone with rand paul and rick santorum, ted cruz. they're the outspoken proponents of banning abortions in all cases. todd akin thoughs he does not have to step aside. if he does, a large part of the republican base will go right with him. there is a perfect storm brewing in tampa, republicans need more than umbrellas on this one. tonight's question, whi
mitt romney and paul ryan cannot talk about todd aiken. if they support him they're in trouble with the mainstream, if they vilify him they're in trouble with the base. he has friends in high places making sure that he doesn't go quietly into the night. today, mike huckabee sent out this letter to his supporters. if todd akin loses the senate seat. ly not blame him. he made his mistake but admitted it and apologized. i'm waiting for the apology from the genius on those in or party that was wise...
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paul ryan slams president obama as he accepts the republican nomination for vice president. >>> and on air scare. a bat makes a tv debut causing a little chaos in a canadian newsroom. good morning, everyone. i'm lynn berry. those stories and more straight ahead. this is first look on msnbc. >>> we are going to begin this morning with disaster area. a downgraded isaac continues to drench the gulf coast this morning moving inland at a meager 5 miles per hour. now president obama has declared disasters in mississippi and louisiana where as many as 70 people were rescued from the raging flood waters. nbc's jay gray reports. >> reporter: it's been more than 24 hours of driving rain and violent winds. still, isaac shows no signs of ending its relentless attack on the gulf coast. >> we'll be dealing with this storm through early friday morning. >> reporter: in many communities including plaquemines parish where water topped the levee, survivors are dealing with more than they can handle. >> i'm exhausted and tired. it's really bad. >> reporter: in some areas more than a foot of rain has left
paul ryan slams president obama as he accepts the republican nomination for vice president. >>> and on air scare. a bat makes a tv debut causing a little chaos in a canadian newsroom. good morning, everyone. i'm lynn berry. those stories and more straight ahead. this is first look on msnbc. >>> we are going to begin this morning with disaster area. a downgraded isaac continues to drench the gulf coast this morning moving inland at a meager 5 miles per hour. now president obama...
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shaken paul ryan in any way but the catholic attack now has paul ryan running scared. and he is trying to run away from ayn rand. paul ryan told a laughingly compliant writer at the country's oldest conservative propaganda outlet, the national review, that the idea that he's an ayn rand devotee as paul krugman has called him is simply, quote, an urban legend, end quote. ryan also said, i reject her philosophy. it's an atheist philosophy. and there ryan proved once again that there is nothing, nothing more powerful than the politics of religion. as soon as catholics started reminding everyone that ryan's guiding light was an atheist, ryan had to turn on her. he had to deny how closely he followed her teachings. he had to deny how much the merciless view of economics shaped his view. he had to deny making ayn rand's book and many books required reading for his congressional staff. he had to deny everything he's ever said about ayn rand simply because she was an atheist. if ayn rand has been a christian of any denomination, paul ryan would not have been forced to disown h
shaken paul ryan in any way but the catholic attack now has paul ryan running scared. and he is trying to run away from ayn rand. paul ryan told a laughingly compliant writer at the country's oldest conservative propaganda outlet, the national review, that the idea that he's an ayn rand devotee as paul krugman has called him is simply, quote, an urban legend, end quote. ryan also said, i reject her philosophy. it's an atheist philosophy. and there ryan proved once again that there is nothing,...
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we know that paul ryan and governor romney will be in new hampshire on monday but paul ryan is just finishing up this event in virginia where he talked about jobs, talked about perhaps creating 300,000 plus jobs for virginia but he did not mention medicare. he said just earlier in the week that he is ready to have this fight and that they would win it but did not mention medicare according to the information i've received here. >> rest assured we'll hear a lot about medicare during the sunday talk shows. we'll hear about it again this weekend when paul ryan heads to florida. he will be in the villages, america's largest retirement community when he is there with his mom in her late 70s and likely is going to say hey this is my mom. i wouldn't want anything to harm her. obviously not going to harm your medicare. this issue is not going away. another piece of evidence of that is the fact we've learned that paul ryan and mitt romney will be campaigning together on monday. it is romney's 100th town hall of the election cycle. initially we had been told, advisers told me they didn't think the two
we know that paul ryan and governor romney will be in new hampshire on monday but paul ryan is just finishing up this event in virginia where he talked about jobs, talked about perhaps creating 300,000 plus jobs for virginia but he did not mention medicare. he said just earlier in the week that he is ready to have this fight and that they would win it but did not mention medicare according to the information i've received here. >> rest assured we'll hear a lot about medicare during the...
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mitt romney and paul ryan dogged by questions about abortion and rape, try to zero in on the economy. >>> unsung heros. tragedy strikes as several good samaritans rush to help a los angeles crash victim. >>> and out for a spin. nasa scientists take the mars rover curiosity for a test drive. >>> very good morning to you. i'm veronica dela cruz. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> and we begin this morning with damage control. with missouri senate candidate todd akin vowing to stay in the race, mitt romney and paul ryan tried to refocus on the economy p is going to hurt at the end of the nigh strengthen into a hurricane and make landfall near tampa, just as the republican national convention is getting started next week. >> forecast track. >> reporter: call it the perfect storm. abortion and the threat of a hurricane hitting florida during the republican convention which starts next monday in tampa. >> contingency plans are in place, should, you know, a worse case scenario happen. we're moving forward and fully expect to put on a convention here in the tampa bay times forum next week. >>
mitt romney and paul ryan dogged by questions about abortion and rape, try to zero in on the economy. >>> unsung heros. tragedy strikes as several good samaritans rush to help a los angeles crash victim. >>> and out for a spin. nasa scientists take the mars rover curiosity for a test drive. >>> very good morning to you. i'm veronica dela cruz. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> and we begin this morning with damage control. with missouri senate...
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someone better get that memo to paul ryan. ryan informs a question and answer session in north carolina. he adopted the silent treatment as well. >> we're going to take a few more questions from the audience. congressman ryan will answer media questions in a little bit. any other questions here? >> is that a no? i'm sorry, i thought that was part of it. i don't see any other hands going up -- >> that's the press. >> we're just doing it from the audience. >> audience. okay. >> exciting stuff, isn't it? mitt romney and paul ryan cannot talk about todd akin. if they support him they're in trouble with the mainstream, if they vilify him they're in trouble with the republican base. todd akin has created a perfect political storm for republicans. and he has some friends in high places making sure that he doesn't go quietly into the night. check this out. today, former arkansas governor mike huckabee sent out this letter to his supporters. "if todd akin loses the senate seat, i will not blame todd akin. he made his mistake but was ma
someone better get that memo to paul ryan. ryan informs a question and answer session in north carolina. he adopted the silent treatment as well. >> we're going to take a few more questions from the audience. congressman ryan will answer media questions in a little bit. any other questions here? >> is that a no? i'm sorry, i thought that was part of it. i don't see any other hands going up -- >> that's the press. >> we're just doing it from the audience. >>...
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look what happened with paul ryan. he had a wall street journal piece that came out today that talked about getting to a mid-size deal to avoid the default on the debt ceiling. and as soon as he put that piece out, he seemed to be like the adult in the room. like the guy in all those world war ii movies, he lifts his head out of the foxhole to take a look around, and all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom, there's firing, and it's coming from his own side. conservatives are saying hey -- >> they hate, your answer to my question. your answer to my question. they hate obama more than they follow business logic. business logic says -- >> some of them do. we've moved into this position now where there are two targets at the same time. one is the government shutdown and the other is default. and it seems to me that the koch industry letter was very focused more on let's not default, but you still have mike needham saying i'm all for keeping the government shut over obama care but not defaulting over obama care. so there's a lot
look what happened with paul ryan. he had a wall street journal piece that came out today that talked about getting to a mid-size deal to avoid the default on the debt ceiling. and as soon as he put that piece out, he seemed to be like the adult in the room. like the guy in all those world war ii movies, he lifts his head out of the foxhole to take a look around, and all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom, there's firing, and it's coming from his own side. conservatives are saying hey -- >>...
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it was not a reference to paul ryan. there was no reference to paul ryan in that answer. >> newt was lying, of course, to rush. paul ryan was all over david gregory's questions and newt gingrich's answers, the answers that enraged rush limbaugh so much so that newt gingrich actually had to call paul ryan on tuesday and apologize. not everyone was impressed with the great gang rich apology. >> a politician either believes in what they just said in an interview or they don't believe in what they just said. and if newt gingrich believes that it's right-wing social engineering to undo obamacare and reform medicare to make sure that we provide a safety net for our seniors who are going to need health care coverage, then say so. but don't apologize later just because the media has dinged you on what it is that you said. it sounded pretty clear to me that newt gingrich's position, because he articulated this, was that paul ryan's plan would be social engineering. and he didn't like it. >> so today, rush limbaugh in his single m
it was not a reference to paul ryan. there was no reference to paul ryan in that answer. >> newt was lying, of course, to rush. paul ryan was all over david gregory's questions and newt gingrich's answers, the answers that enraged rush limbaugh so much so that newt gingrich actually had to call paul ryan on tuesday and apologize. not everyone was impressed with the great gang rich apology. >> a politician either believes in what they just said in an interview or they don't believe...
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on tuesday he said, i wasn't talking about paul ryan. that's the behavior of a crazy person. >> although at the beginning, the thing that makes it interesting to me, he was telling the truth. it is right wing social engineering. it is radical, as he said, in another sound byte. he was explaining voucherizing or privatizing medicare is out of the mainstream and will not be acceptable to the american people. he is right about that. this owe this obliviousness meant he handed them more for the 2012 election. this is way more important than tiffany's. newt gingrich says the republican plan is radical and out of the mainstream. >> in the allies and wonderland world, when you speak the truth, you sound like you're offbase. thank you. last word, michael. >> i was going to say, we'll see what newt does when he is out in los angeles, how he tries to recover. and if he can. now is the time to hunker down. >> does he have a shot the presidency? >> everyone has a shot. whether they hit the target is a different conversation. >> everyone has a shot?
on tuesday he said, i wasn't talking about paul ryan. that's the behavior of a crazy person. >> although at the beginning, the thing that makes it interesting to me, he was telling the truth. it is right wing social engineering. it is radical, as he said, in another sound byte. he was explaining voucherizing or privatizing medicare is out of the mainstream and will not be acceptable to the american people. he is right about that. this owe this obliviousness meant he handed them more for...
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was it convincing coming from paul ryan? did he make them feel more comfortable about some of the issues that might concern them? >> i don't think so, especially on social security. i thought he would try some way to run away from his support from privatization, but he says, no. young people should have an option in order to invest in something other than social security. well, i think biden made it abundantly clear, had they done that, they would have been wiped out. the market crashed so that ends the argument about privatization on social security. >> let's bring this back to the top of the debate. at issue was libya. we have new sound that came in from secretary clinton. let's listen to that. >> we do not have a complete picture. we do not have all the answers. no one in this administration has ever claimed otherwise. every one of us has made clear that we are providing the best information we have at that time. >> that's from secretary clinton from moments ago here. congressman, the answer vice president joe biden gave
was it convincing coming from paul ryan? did he make them feel more comfortable about some of the issues that might concern them? >> i don't think so, especially on social security. i thought he would try some way to run away from his support from privatization, but he says, no. young people should have an option in order to invest in something other than social security. well, i think biden made it abundantly clear, had they done that, they would have been wiped out. the market crashed...
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. >>> republican presidential candidate nuewt gingrich has apologized to fellow republican paul ryan for criticizing his proposal to overhaul medicare by replacing it with vouchers. on nbc's "meet the press" gingerich labeled ryan's proposal a, quote, right wing social engineering. >>> congresswoman gabrielle giffords will undergo surgery today on her skull. doctors will be replacing a piece that was removed to allow room for brain swelling in after she was shot in the head in january. >>> a new study from harvard shows that coffee may help protect men from prostate cancer. researchers found that those who drank the most cups of coffee, six or more cups daily, had a 60% lower risk of developing the cancer. >> and dramatic video from spain where tv yews were on hand as a building collapsed. the structure was being taken down following last week's deadly earthquake. >>> and now here's your "first look" at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 12,479 after dipping 68 points yesterday. the s&p lost a fraction while the nasdaq went up a fraction. taking a look at oversea
. >>> republican presidential candidate nuewt gingrich has apologized to fellow republican paul ryan for criticizing his proposal to overhaul medicare by replacing it with vouchers. on nbc's "meet the press" gingerich labeled ryan's proposal a, quote, right wing social engineering. >>> congresswoman gabrielle giffords will undergo surgery today on her skull. doctors will be replacing a piece that was removed to allow room for brain swelling in after she was shot in...
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. >> i know dan is in debate camp helping paul ryan. we'll talk next about that. >>> coming up, los angeles's mayor. what is the president's come back after the debate? and biden versus ryan. the pressure ahead of that event. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness? by the armful? by the barrelful? the carful? how about...by the bowlful? campbell's soups give you nutrition, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. boring. boring. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with me, i went to the citi private pass page and decided to be...not boring. that's how i met marilyn... giada... really good. yes! [ jack ] ...and alicia. ♪ this girl is on fire [ male announcer ] use any citi card to get the benefits of private pass. more concerts, more events, more experiences. [ jack ] hey, who's boring now? [ male announcer ] get more access with the citi card. [ crowd cheering, mouse clicks ] >>> with two weeks before the final presidential debate which is going to focus on foreign policy mitt romn
. >> i know dan is in debate camp helping paul ryan. we'll talk next about that. >>> coming up, los angeles's mayor. what is the president's come back after the debate? and biden versus ryan. the pressure ahead of that event. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness? by the armful? by the barrelful? the carful? how about...by the bowlful? campbell's soups give you nutrition, energy, and can help you keep a healthy weight. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. boring....
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paul ryan is the house republican, chairman of the budget committee. he was on meet the press as well explaining his plan. >> the problem with a bunch of tax increases, the president raised taxes and is calling for a new increase. you slow economic grouchlt we want job creation, economic growth. that's why if you go down the tax increase path you're sacrificing the economy. especially when the fact that the problem we have is spending, not taxes. >> reporter: -- the president would certainly not sign it but it's a starting point. the president will come forward wednesday. we'll see what he has to see and what his approach will be to tackle the politically risky entitlement programs like medicare, medicaid and perhaps social security. >> thank you very much. a lot going on at the white house. >> absolutely. >> catch the full interview here on msnbc at 2:00 p.m. on "meet the press." incredible video of an apparent tornado ripping parts of an iowa town to shreds. it struck in mapleton te stairwaying several buildings in the downtown area. it ripped the ro
paul ryan is the house republican, chairman of the budget committee. he was on meet the press as well explaining his plan. >> the problem with a bunch of tax increases, the president raised taxes and is calling for a new increase. you slow economic grouchlt we want job creation, economic growth. that's why if you go down the tax increase path you're sacrificing the economy. especially when the fact that the problem we have is spending, not taxes. >> reporter: -- the president would...
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suddenly paul ryan cares about our safety net? ryan cares about the poor, the same one-way ryan that pitched a budget that would essentially end medicare, the same paul ryan who leads the "cut cut cut" chant. >> of course we have to cut spending. >> significant cuts of spending and changes to the way we spend the american people's money. >> significant cuts in washington spending. >> we need real spending cuts. >> cut cut cut, now that's the paul ryan i know. a new report out today says those spending cuts probably eliminated more than 370,000 jobs. maybe that's why i find his concern for the poor so unconvincing. this week we sought the president out, promoting plans to help america's students. >> i want us to win the future. that means we should be doing everything we can to put a college education within reach for every american. that has never been more important. >> you hear that? a college education has never been more important. but for the second day in a row, paul ryan's party has slammed the president's initiative to hel
suddenly paul ryan cares about our safety net? ryan cares about the poor, the same one-way ryan that pitched a budget that would essentially end medicare, the same paul ryan who leads the "cut cut cut" chant. >> of course we have to cut spending. >> significant cuts of spending and changes to the way we spend the american people's money. >> significant cuts in washington spending. >> we need real spending cuts. >> cut cut cut, now that's the paul ryan i...
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i would never slam paul ryan. if you are a conservative, you better expect gotchaç press an they took dramatically out of context what i said. i have said consistently, we ought to have some requirement, either have health insurance or you post a bond or in some way, you indicate you are going to be held accountable. >> but that is the individual mandate is it not? >>> variation on t. [ playing the theme from "the sing" ] >> any effort to impose a federal mandate on anyone. >> this is a moment to get rid of him had. do it. get it over with. [ playing the theme from "the sting" ] >> i would not have intervened. i think there are a lot of other twice affect gadhafi. >> now, i love all of that but the craven politicking, he never caused any problems for newt within the gop that's what they do. come on. their front runner is mitt romney s there a greasier politician in the country or one that flip-flopped more? no it was really the heresy against the ryan plan that led to a righteous fury against gingrich by fellow
i would never slam paul ryan. if you are a conservative, you better expect gotchaç press an they took dramatically out of context what i said. i have said consistently, we ought to have some requirement, either have health insurance or you post a bond or in some way, you indicate you are going to be held accountable. >> but that is the individual mandate is it not? >>> variation on t. [ playing the theme from "the sing" ] >> any effort to impose a federal...
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>> i don't think we dismiss paul ryan's plan at all. i think we demonstrate it when weh the opportunity to do the health care bill that we have no problems tackling entitlements, because we did it with medicare. we extended the life of medicare by 14 years in that bill, and everybody knows it. the republicans even use that extension against us saying that we were cutting medicare. now they're trying to use the same numbers that we use and build on it in saying it's the right thing to do. i would remind your listeners and those looking at this program this morning that the democrats in the reform bill did, in fact, tackle entitlements and did extend the life of medicare by 14 years, and we will say to mr. ryan, just build upon what we've done and give us credit for having done it. >> congressman clyburn, always good to see pup thank you for taking the time. >> thank you. >>> if you have an iphone or blackberry in your pocket or purse, pay attention. smartphone theft is on the rise, and losing that pricey phone isn't necessarily the worst
>> i don't think we dismiss paul ryan's plan at all. i think we demonstrate it when weh the opportunity to do the health care bill that we have no problems tackling entitlements, because we did it with medicare. we extended the life of medicare by 14 years in that bill, and everybody knows it. the republicans even use that extension against us saying that we were cutting medicare. now they're trying to use the same numbers that we use and build on it in saying it's the right thing to do....
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the thing is the paul ryan budget does kill medicare. instead of medicare old people will have a system where they have to buy private insurance on the private market, and paul ryan will give them coupons to get discounts. so if you want to call a system like that medicare, telling granny to go buy private insurance on the open market but with a coupon, then sure, call it medicare. call it macaroni. i don't care. but what everybody understands medicare to be, guaranteed government health insurance for old people, for what medicare actually is, the paul ryan plan kills medicare. almost every republican in the house and the senate voted to kill medicare, when they voted for the paul ryan plan, this there was much rejoigs on the democratic side, and that's because democrats knew they could stop this thing from actually becoming law. president obama would never sign anything like that. but they also knew that republicans had just hung this giant albatross around their own necks. for the rest of their careers now they will have to explain or
the thing is the paul ryan budget does kill medicare. instead of medicare old people will have a system where they have to buy private insurance on the private market, and paul ryan will give them coupons to get discounts. so if you want to call a system like that medicare, telling granny to go buy private insurance on the open market but with a coupon, then sure, call it medicare. call it macaroni. i don't care. but what everybody understands medicare to be, guaranteed government health...
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john boehner says he won't accept anything less than a concrete plan. >> paul ryan's plan, which the house republicans are embracing or at least most are, some of the tea partiers have their problems with it, but at any rate, we're hearing reports that it is absolutely going to die in the senate. what are you hearing in terms of the senate democrats' opposition to the republicans' proposal is this. >> well, they're dramatically opposed to it, particularly with regard to medicare. you've heard the issue and substantive disagreements they have with ryan. they say that it is a privatization scheme for medicare. that it is not fair, echoing what the president said. the senate has that gang of six -- six individuals, republican and democrat, who are working on a plan. they have been mind closed doors. there's yet another recess over the course of the spring break coming up. had they come back, that's the earliest they hope to present that. but meanwhile, the clock is ticking, contessa and it's unclear whether or not republicans in the house, again, are going to allow that debt limit to ge
john boehner says he won't accept anything less than a concrete plan. >> paul ryan's plan, which the house republicans are embracing or at least most are, some of the tea partiers have their problems with it, but at any rate, we're hearing reports that it is absolutely going to die in the senate. what are you hearing in terms of the senate democrats' opposition to the republicans' proposal is this. >> well, they're dramatically opposed to it, particularly with regard to medicare....
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so that's what he's missing. >> ezra klein, paul ryan is officially now double teamed. he's being double teamed by budget wonks like yourself and then by catholics like father martin and the nuns on the bus. just from the budgetary standpoint that you've looked at, and without having any reference to catholic teaching, this is very clearly a budget approach that lands in an extremely unfair way. >> yeah, it's not what you'd call proportionate. look, the thing that people don't always know about ryan's budget, is that on the front end, it costs lots of money. it actually costs trillions of new dollars. so one thing it does is spends trillions more than obama would or than the defense budget baseline would on the military. so you've spent $1 trillion there. then he's got tax cuts in the trillions of dollars. and an enormous a lot of deficit reductions on top of that. so pay for your deficit reductions, pay for your defense, pay for your tax cuts. the only thing the government really spends money on beyond the military is social insurance. that's the big chunk of money. it
so that's what he's missing. >> ezra klein, paul ryan is officially now double teamed. he's being double teamed by budget wonks like yourself and then by catholics like father martin and the nuns on the bus. just from the budgetary standpoint that you've looked at, and without having any reference to catholic teaching, this is very clearly a budget approach that lands in an extremely unfair way. >> yeah, it's not what you'd call proportionate. look, the thing that people don't...
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into paul ryan's congressional district today. the catholic chaplain of the colbert report will join us to tell us just how jealous he is of the nuns. [ captai another important step toward . [ crowd chatters and groans ] the decriminalization of marijuana. that's coming up. ♪ [ male announcer ] hunger getting to you? ♪ grab a ritz crackerfuls. made with real cheese and whole grain. get hunger before it gets you. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] not everything powerful has to guzzle fuel. the...
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>> what you just did to paul ryan is unforgivable. >> i didn't do anything to paul ryan. yefrnlts, you did you undercut him and his allies in the house. >> no. >> you are an embarrassment to our party. >> i'm sorry you feel that way. >> why don't you get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself. >> you're an embarrassment to our party why don't you get to out before you make a bigger fool of yourself, pretty smart there let's turn to two msnbc political analysts, howard fineman of the "huffington post" and eugene robinson, "washington post." i have never seen a worst entree into washington politics. within one day he has alienated his own party, changed position three teens health care, but let's go to this assault this assassination of the republicans' own platform which they all passed, except for four members of the house, 218 votes for this plan and he completely depth charges it the first day on "meet the press." what is going on in newt gingrich's head? howard fineman? >> well, that's question i have been trying to answer for about 20 years. i have been coverin
>> what you just did to paul ryan is unforgivable. >> i didn't do anything to paul ryan. yefrnlts, you did you undercut him and his allies in the house. >> no. >> you are an embarrassment to our party. >> i'm sorry you feel that way. >> why don't you get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself. >> you're an embarrassment to our party why don't you get to out before you make a bigger fool of yourself, pretty smart there let's turn to two msnbc...
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i think paul ryan did a great job also. but vice president biden is very strong. >> karen, let's talk about all that smiling and interrupting. your unvarnished take. do you wish the vice president had backed off even a little? because then we wouldn't even be talking about his style. >> the only reason we're talking about his style is because the republicans can't seem to take a punch. last week when our guy didn't do so well we took hit. we admitted it and we moved on. this week when it was a commanding performance for romney, all of a sudden joe biden is being rude. frankly, there were so many moments where biden could have further corrected paul on a marathon runner ryan, come on, this guy was so fast and loose with the facts. marine guards, as an example. they are there to guard information. it has nothing to do with the security on the ambassador. basically he essentially said they would commit ground forces in syria. there were a lot of missteps there that ryan made. i think biden focused on the biggest ones. and cert
i think paul ryan did a great job also. but vice president biden is very strong. >> karen, let's talk about all that smiling and interrupting. your unvarnished take. do you wish the vice president had backed off even a little? because then we wouldn't even be talking about his style. >> the only reason we're talking about his style is because the republicans can't seem to take a punch. last week when our guy didn't do so well we took hit. we admitted it and we moved on. this week...
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in the paul ryan medispending plan, the emphasis is on government spending, not providing health care. in order to cut government spending on health care, the ryan plan simply provides people over 65 some limited financial assistance in paying for health insurance they would obtain in the private market which does not exist. there is, in the ryan plan, no guarantee of actually obtaining health care for people over 65. none. no guarantee. the only guarantee in the ryan plan is the guarantee the government will limit its spending on your health care, no matter what you may require. needless to say, people over 65 require more health care than any of the rest of us and more expensive health care than the rest of us. the ryan plan is specifically planned to deny people over 65 expensive health care. that is how it saves the government money and that is the only way it saves the government money. anyone who uses the word medicare to describe the ryan voucher plan has no comprehension at all of what medicare actually is or how it actually works. here is the best question anyone has asked a
in the paul ryan medispending plan, the emphasis is on government spending, not providing health care. in order to cut government spending on health care, the ryan plan simply provides people over 65 some limited financial assistance in paying for health insurance they would obtain in the private market which does not exist. there is, in the ryan plan, no guarantee of actually obtaining health care for people over 65. none. no guarantee. the only guarantee in the ryan plan is the guarantee the...
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but here is how paul ryan wants to reduce the deficit, with nothing but cuts. and here is the balanced approach from the progressive caucus. you know, when we need budget advice in the future, i think we should kind of push paul ryan off to the side, like we did in the election. and for now, we should turn to the house progressive caucus for advice because they are very serious people. >>> it is hard to imagine a tool that can better minimize the risk to civilians. >> senate democrats are demanding answers about the targeted killing of american citizens. colonel jack jacobs, sam stein of "the huffington post," and the daily beast's michelle goldberg on today's big drone developments. >>> karl rove launches a sneak attack on democrats in kentucky. >> ashley judd, an obama-following hollywood radical liberal. >> i'll tell you how actress ashley judd is responding to karl rove and mitch mcconnell tonight. >>> and fox news is scrambling to explain their latest cheap shot on hillary clinton. showing off this glamorous new face. face-lift perhaps? >> you don't want t
but here is how paul ryan wants to reduce the deficit, with nothing but cuts. and here is the balanced approach from the progressive caucus. you know, when we need budget advice in the future, i think we should kind of push paul ryan off to the side, like we did in the election. and for now, we should turn to the house progressive caucus for advice because they are very serious people. >>> it is hard to imagine a tool that can better minimize the risk to civilians. >> senate...
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. >> i want to play what paul ryan said in reaction to the president's address. let me play it. >> he's taking to the road for the next few days in campaign mode. he seems to always stay in a campaign mode where he treats people, the other party as the enemy and not as partners. if he wanted to get things done he would work for us instead of campaigning. >> he would work with us instead of campaigning around the country. is that fact, fiction or an opinion? >> it's just an opinion. every president does this after the state of the union. you saw it with gorge bush after he had the idea of privatizing social security. he went across the country to do that. this is a republican talking point. this idea that somehow obama doesn't want to work with the republicans and he is the who is obstructing poor progress in terms of the economy and other issues and he is always if campaign mode. it's not surprising that this is what they say again. i think you have a president that realizes he did well in 2012 and he has momentum and very much wants to go above the head of the f
. >> i want to play what paul ryan said in reaction to the president's address. let me play it. >> he's taking to the road for the next few days in campaign mode. he seems to always stay in a campaign mode where he treats people, the other party as the enemy and not as partners. if he wanted to get things done he would work for us instead of campaigning. >> he would work with us instead of campaigning around the country. is that fact, fiction or an opinion? >> it's just...
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but paul ryan really connected with the value voters. we have almost 2500 present, about 25,000 watching online. so it's been a great weekend. >> tony perkins, i just asked you if the base is excited about mitt romney and your response was they're getting very excited. >> yeah, no -- >> if they're not excited now, what the point do they? >> they're excited about the election, but let be real. the primary was a very divided primary. had several candidates in it. but they are rallying around mitt romney. the realization is that we've had four years of barack obama with policies from an economic standpoint that have not been good for the country. from a standpoint of the social and cultural issue, certainly not good according to this crowd and what we've seen unfold in the last four years. so first off, yes, they're very motivated in the election, but now that motivation to remove barack obama is turning into support for mitt romney. and i see the intensity and i believe it will reach a point where mitt romney will be successful. >> you men
but paul ryan really connected with the value voters. we have almost 2500 present, about 25,000 watching online. so it's been a great weekend. >> tony perkins, i just asked you if the base is excited about mitt romney and your response was they're getting very excited. >> yeah, no -- >> if they're not excited now, what the point do they? >> they're excited about the election, but let be real. the primary was a very divided primary. had several candidates in it. but they...
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despite what the bush tax cuts have done to the debt and deficit, paul ryan and mitt romney, calls for keeping the tax cults in place even for the wealthiest people in the country who don't need more tax cuts, they are not only keeping them in place, the plan calls for doubling down on the most rad cat idea of the bush tax cuts which was to narrow he target the people that have the most money and focus intently on giving them more taxpayer help than anybody else. the ryan-romney plan would give the average millionaire, look at this, it would give the average millionaire $265,000 per year. extending the bush tax cuts would give them $129,000 tax cut per year paul ryan and mitt romney are good with they. they are doubling down on the rich people bonus tax present. another quarter of a million dollars for every average millionaire. this is not the politics of past anymore. talking about george w bush at the center of today's republican party thinking and today's politics. president obama was arguing for closing the loophole that lets people that make their money as financers pay mini tax
despite what the bush tax cuts have done to the debt and deficit, paul ryan and mitt romney, calls for keeping the tax cults in place even for the wealthiest people in the country who don't need more tax cuts, they are not only keeping them in place, the plan calls for doubling down on the most rad cat idea of the bush tax cuts which was to narrow he target the people that have the most money and focus intently on giving them more taxpayer help than anybody else. the ryan-romney plan would give...
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now his latest line is he supports paul ryan in what paul ryan wants it do. ie social engineering. but the republicans need to prepare the ground of public opinion. they need to convince the american people firstç before american people accept the social engineering from the right. if you can follow all of that, then you're a better mind than even the people that we will be voting in the iowa caucuses. >> every time one of these republicans get the floor, starting with palin, then grabbed way with her when she sort of dropped it by trump. he was the main floor. every time they get the big room they make horse's asses. they all look like a lounge act an hour of a they start. last two questions. what is the curse on the republican nomination that everyone looks like a mole for the other side? your thoughts first, gene? >> well, the great people haven't come to take the stage. newt gingrich, let's be honest, is a long shot as presidential candidate. donald trump, forget about it. sarah palin is sarah palin. but she doesn't have the traditional presidential campaigner aura about her.
now his latest line is he supports paul ryan in what paul ryan wants it do. ie social engineering. but the republicans need to prepare the ground of public opinion. they need to convince the american people firstç before american people accept the social engineering from the right. if you can follow all of that, then you're a better mind than even the people that we will be voting in the iowa caucuses. >> every time one of these republicans get the floor, starting with palin, then...
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hinting at this whole paul ryan reform, he said i'm not really interested in laying down more markers. i'd rather that the president work on savings into law. this was interpreted as the house republican leadership has realed this ryan medicare plan is going nowhere. maybe they're going to put it on the shelf. >> i wrote friday that republicans taxed the budget on nation nationaljourney.com, to seek separate bills to enact. on appropriations, which requires an extra $35 million, we're going to do it for sure. we'll wait and see what happens on the other legislation. that was the first signal to me that the leadership was not committed to making paul ryan's budget something to be a piece of legislation on the house floor over to the senate. >> may take obama's re-election campaign to bring the paul ryan budget. major garrett, and a padre's fan. >> long suffering. >> thank you, sir. >>> trivia time. we asked which member of congress was born in pakistan. the answer, major, you're here, do you know this one? >> i do not. >> chris van hollen of maryland. his father was stationed in pakist
hinting at this whole paul ryan reform, he said i'm not really interested in laying down more markers. i'd rather that the president work on savings into law. this was interpreted as the house republican leadership has realed this ryan medicare plan is going nowhere. maybe they're going to put it on the shelf. >> i wrote friday that republicans taxed the budget on nation nationaljourney.com, to seek separate bills to enact. on appropriations, which requires an extra $35 million, we're...
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paul ryan. >> paul ryan. >> creative. >> creative? >> yeah, yeah. >> nikki haley? >> nikki haley, energetic. >> energetic. >> yeah. >> donald trump. >> huge. >> huge. rick santorum. >> press secretary. >> press secretary. >> one correction for governor romney, it's not huge, it's uge, you lose the "h." mitt romney is renovating his la jolla ocean side property, san diego area. politico had a new report. they got some plans from the city about a renovation he's doing on the place. $12 million expansion, which would triple the size of the property, includes a split-level, four-vehicle garage that comes with a car lift, an elevator for the cars, to transport vehicles between floors. the romney campaign got some criticism -- he's out of touch, he's got a car elevator, et cetera, et cetera. the campaign says it's simply a mechanism for storing cars in tight spaces, and we know how mitt romney loves cars. >> i love cars. i don't know, i mean, i grew up totally in love with cars. i drive a mustang and a chevy pickup truck. ann drives a couple cadillacs, actually. who, by
paul ryan. >> paul ryan. >> creative. >> creative? >> yeah, yeah. >> nikki haley? >> nikki haley, energetic. >> energetic. >> yeah. >> donald trump. >> huge. >> huge. rick santorum. >> press secretary. >> press secretary. >> one correction for governor romney, it's not huge, it's uge, you lose the "h." mitt romney is renovating his la jolla ocean side property, san diego area. politico had a new...
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who adopted the paul ryan plan are. what the president is saying is there is significant savings how you deliver medicare over the next ten years that can save money. reform it, don't kill it. there is a big difference there. the american people understand it. >> i think the republicans committed political suicide by adopting the ryan plan. they voted for it. it's their baby. >> the problem is your version of saving medicare, reforming medicare is to pay doctors less money. i've got news, a lot of doctors aren't going to take medicare patients. doctors don't have to take medicare patients. >> that is not part of the plan. you're behind the curve. you don't know your facts. >> heidi, if the white house comes in and says, look, we cut medicare but are not calling it "cutting it" but call it "reforming it," does that let you guys off the hook? thank god, man, we were getting killed on this issue? >> i don't think we are getting killed on the issue on the right. people on the right don't want to kill grandma. here is the di
who adopted the paul ryan plan are. what the president is saying is there is significant savings how you deliver medicare over the next ten years that can save money. reform it, don't kill it. there is a big difference there. the american people understand it. >> i think the republicans committed political suicide by adopting the ryan plan. they voted for it. it's their baby. >> the problem is your version of saving medicare, reforming medicare is to pay doctors less money. i've got...
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pall r paul ryan and mitt romney are good with they. they are doubling down on the rich people bonus tax present. another quarter of a million dollars for every average millionaire. this is not the politics of past anymore. talking about george w bush at the center of today's republican party thinking and today's politics. president obama was arguing for closing the loophole that lets people that make their money as financers pay mini tax rates instead of the the tax rates that everybody else has to pay. >> you're bringing in a million bucks or more a year. what the rule says if you should pay the same percentage of your income in taxes as middle class families do. you shouldn't get special tax breaks. you shouldn't be able to get special loopholes. >> the president's proposal is sometimes shorthanded as the buffet rule named after warren buffet role. i think it might stick better with people if they call it the romney loophole. it would leave the tax rate for rich people where it currently is, but would close the loophole that prevents
pall r paul ryan and mitt romney are good with they. they are doubling down on the rich people bonus tax present. another quarter of a million dollars for every average millionaire. this is not the politics of past anymore. talking about george w bush at the center of today's republican party thinking and today's politics. president obama was arguing for closing the loophole that lets people that make their money as financers pay mini tax rates instead of the the tax rates that everybody else...
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the man who ran for vice president, stick still congressman paul ryan. >> congressman paul ryan, is he the leader of the republican party now? >> i wouldn't think so. paul ryan is a policy wonk. >> oh, i wouldn't think so. john boehner laughing in the face of the idea that the leader of the republican party from here on out might be paul ryan. that guy? the republican party picking its new face, its new leader after their electoral disaster. that's going to be an amazing thing to watch. over the next few weeks, months, years. i mean, here's just a case in point. it was an overall electoral disaster for republicans to lose the presidency. it was thought to be impossible for them to lose the presidency. nobody since the great depression has ever been re-elected as president with an unemployment rate like the one we've got now. but barack obama managed to do it. or the republicans managed to blow it depending how you look at it. just take as a case in point. the tremendous republican disaster in the united states senate. i mean, they had a bad night on tuesday night. but in the senate, it
the man who ran for vice president, stick still congressman paul ryan. >> congressman paul ryan, is he the leader of the republican party now? >> i wouldn't think so. paul ryan is a policy wonk. >> oh, i wouldn't think so. john boehner laughing in the face of the idea that the leader of the republican party from here on out might be paul ryan. that guy? the republican party picking its new face, its new leader after their electoral disaster. that's going to be an amazing thing...
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and paul ryan said look, the math takes too long. well, mitt romney's solution, he just decided there was not math involved in this problem. and that is absolutely crazy, the only thing he outlined in the budget, that he would cut is big bird. he has taken to sesame street and let wall street run wild. >> if you impose this debt on future generations, and big bird, i can tell you as the father of three children grown now, but any father who has gone to a toy store knows that big bird is a pretty commercially successful. and whether or not we should subsidize it, and say it is not that big of a percentage of the budget, that is true, but every penny that you raise as a cut, seems to be sacred with this administration, and they can't cut it. and i think the american people understand this is a big election and a big choice. >> meanwhile, the big debate about the presidential debate has spilled into a second week. >> the president of the united states had 90 minutes. now, if he had done his homework and actually prepared and actually st
and paul ryan said look, the math takes too long. well, mitt romney's solution, he just decided there was not math involved in this problem. and that is absolutely crazy, the only thing he outlined in the budget, that he would cut is big bird. he has taken to sesame street and let wall street run wild. >> if you impose this debt on future generations, and big bird, i can tell you as the father of three children grown now, but any father who has gone to a toy store knows that big bird is a...
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mitt romney says he's on the same page as paul ryan who wrote to plan to essentially end medicare. with mitt romney you have to wonder, which page is he on today? >> the ad, which is clearly pretending to be a republican ad is running in south carolina, a state that is key to mitt romney's strategy for winning the republican nomination. a romney aide responded to the ad with this statement -- president obama's first campaign ad is an attack ad. president obama and his team are desperate to change the subject to anything other than jobs and the millions of americans out of work with 9.6% unemployment in south carolina, voters are looking for a jobs plan not a smear campaign. romney still hasn't officially announced his presidential candidacy. romney also hasn't said where he stands on the ryan republican plan for abolishing medicare which is thanks to newt gingrich the new litmus test for republican candidates. >> while i haven't introduced today my own plan, will in the future, it's not going to be identical to the ryan plan, but it shares many of those same objectives. >> another
mitt romney says he's on the same page as paul ryan who wrote to plan to essentially end medicare. with mitt romney you have to wonder, which page is he on today? >> the ad, which is clearly pretending to be a republican ad is running in south carolina, a state that is key to mitt romney's strategy for winning the republican nomination. a romney aide responded to the ad with this statement -- president obama's first campaign ad is an attack ad. president obama and his team are desperate...
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paul ryan ends the guaranteed medicare benefit, turns medicare into a coupon program. democrats united, democrats in the house and the senate and the white house that we are open to ideas for efficiency in medicare to extend its solvency, but we will not negotiate what republicans have been trying to do 20 years now, and that is to end medicare. >> in terms of that as a potent political issue, one of the reasons i wanted to talk to you about this, you're in charge of converting that issue into electoral gains for democrats. i know you're confident you can do that. does that also apply to social security? are democrats planning to draw a line between a democratic plan to protect social security and republicans putting it at risk? >> this election in 2012 is going to be very much a referendum. do you want a crowd dedicated to terminating medicare, privatizing social security, or do you want a majority of democrats who are going to promote pro-growth agenda, create jobs and protect medicare and social security. and i have to say, rachel, we found a new ally in this fight,
paul ryan ends the guaranteed medicare benefit, turns medicare into a coupon program. democrats united, democrats in the house and the senate and the white house that we are open to ideas for efficiency in medicare to extend its solvency, but we will not negotiate what republicans have been trying to do 20 years now, and that is to end medicare. >> in terms of that as a potent political issue, one of the reasons i wanted to talk to you about this, you're in charge of converting that issue...
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take, for example, the paul ryan republican kill medicare budget. when the paul ryan budget was heading toward a vote in the senate in may, senator brown told an audience in massachusetts, quote, the leaders will bring forward paul ryan's budget and i will vote for it. i will vote for it. that's what he said. a few days after saying that, staffers for senator brown explained that that statement, i will vote for it, was not in fact a statement about how the senator would vote on that legislation. it was just a statement that he would vote on it. he was talking about having the opportunity to vote on that bill even though what he explicitly said was, i will vote for it. ultimately after saying, yes, he wanted to vote for the paul ryan plan to kill medicare and after that his staffers say they didn't know whether or not he wanted to vote on it to kill medicare, he settled on a no vote. it was yes then i have no idea, ignore what i said then it was no all in the span of ten days. that's been sort of what it's like talking to scott brown about national i
take, for example, the paul ryan republican kill medicare budget. when the paul ryan budget was heading toward a vote in the senate in may, senator brown told an audience in massachusetts, quote, the leaders will bring forward paul ryan's budget and i will vote for it. i will vote for it. that's what he said. a few days after saying that, staffers for senator brown explained that that statement, i will vote for it, was not in fact a statement about how the senator would vote on that...
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this is paul ryan's party tonight. mitt romney is the main event tomorrow night but ryan showed he is the heart and soul of the party. tonight his speech was strangely on the attack but did it hold the optimistic message of his hero, ronald reagan. >> they've run out of ideas. their moment came and went. fear and division is all they've got left. with all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money. and he's pretty experienced at that. >> the focus of ryan's speech was the president's failed leadership, as he said but provided few details about what a romney/ryan leadership would offer the country. >> it started out with stirring speeches, greek columns, the thrill of something new. now all that is left is a presidency adrift surviving on slogans that already seem tired. grasping at a moment that is already past, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind. >> there is a heavy helping of deceptive language in the speech from medicare cuts and a closing of a gm plant. the plant shut down under george
this is paul ryan's party tonight. mitt romney is the main event tomorrow night but ryan showed he is the heart and soul of the party. tonight his speech was strangely on the attack but did it hold the optimistic message of his hero, ronald reagan. >> they've run out of ideas. their moment came and went. fear and division is all they've got left. with all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money. and he's pretty experienced at that. >> the focus of ryan's speech...